D. malaccensis.] BECCARI THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS. 61 
glabrous; lower spikelets of each branch, the largest 8-9 cm. long with a 
rigid zig-zag sinuous axis and with 6-7 distichous flowers on each side; the 
internodes of the spikelets (the spaces between two flowers) 5-7 mm. long, 
cylindraceous or obsoletely angular; spathels with a short annular membranous ` 
limb prolonged at one side into a triangular point; involucrophorum pedicelliform, 
slightly longer than the spathel, slightly obconic and gradually expanded into an ~ 
oblique and at one side acate bracteiform limb, rather distinctly callous in its axil; 
involucre shallowly cupular, truncate, entire; areola of the neuter flower distinct, 
bordered above with a swollen semi-circular ridge. Fruiting. perianth almost entirely 
explanate, Fruit globular, about 2 cm. in diameter, very shortly beaked; scales deeply 
channelled along the centre, in 18 longitudinal series,  straw-coloured or pale 
brown with darker margins and a very narrow, scarious, finely erosely toothed 
edge and a bluntish apex. Seed suborbicalar, being rather distinctly flattened, 
15 mm. in diameter, 11 mm. thick, ruminate; embryo basal. 
Hasrrar.— Rutland Island in the South Andamans. Kurz says that it is rather 
common there, and that, besides canes, it yields a small quantity of a good kind 
of Dragon's blood, which exudes from between the scales. 
OssrRvaTIoNS.— Related to D.  melanochaetes from which it differs in its much 
larger size, in the swollen junctures of the basal part of the fruiting spadix, and 
especially in the orbicular, somewhat flattened seed, Of D. Kureianus I have seen 
only very incomplete specimens in the Herbarium at Kew. My description of the 
leaf-sheaths and outer spathe, {parts which I have not. seen, is derived from that 
of Kurz. ee T 
| 11. Dazmonorops MALaccensts Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii, Sor; Mig. FI. Ind 
Dat. iii, 88; Walp. Ann. iii, 475 and v, 8927; Becc. in Rec. Bot. 
Surv. Ind. ii. 222. T i 
Calamus acanthopis Griff. Palms Brit. Ind. 102, pl, CCXVI, B; H. Wendl. 
in Kerch. Palm. 235, | 
Rotang Kertong Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist, v, 94. 
Descrrprion.—A pparently large and probably scandent. Leaves large; the por- 
tion of one seen by me, probably belonging to the intermediate part of a leaf 
from lower part of the stem, has the rachis very acutely trigonous, slightly 
convex beneath, where armed only along the centre line with small binate or 
ternate claws, with a very sharp salient not spinous angle and two slightly concave 
side faces above. Leaflets large, very numerous, approximate and very regularly set 
at an angle of about. 45°, papyraceous, rather rigid, ensiform, 50-52 cm. long, 
2:5 em. in width, broadest about 10 em. above the base and thence very gra- 
dually acuminate to a subulate tip, slightly narrowing -to the base, where rather 
suddenly plicate; on the upper surface the mid-costa acute and one slender 
costula on each side of it furnished from about the middle upwards with short, 
rather remote, appressed bristles; beneath the mid-costa alone is very minutely and 
closely bristly from the basejto the apex. Male spadiz very large, broadly 
fusiform, in one specimen about 60 cm. long including the beak; outer 
spathe gradually tapering to a moderately long beak, two-keeled, densely 1 
with numerous, long, very narrowly laminar or subsetiform, black, more or less 
